APCICT News

To celebrate the International Women’s Day, the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology together with the Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services of the Republic of Maldives and APCICT will be organizing the Training on E-Commerce and Digital Marketing for Women Entrepreneurs in Male, Maldives from 8 to 9 March 2023.

The Development Academy of the Philippines, in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT/ESCAP), is organizing the Digital Leaders Seminar for Local Chief Executives on 2 to 3 March 2023 in Siargao, Surigao del Norte. The event is targeted to local chief executives and other government officials who are responsible for the development and implementation of digital initiatives in their jurisdictions.

APCICT, in partnership with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and in collaboration with the Geoinformatics Center/Asian Institute of Technology and ITC-University of Twente, will hold a training event from 7-9 February 2023 in Kathmandu, Nepal, with the aim of improving the capabilities of government officials from ministries and departments responsible for disaster risk management in Nepal.

In an effort to strengthen the capacities of women entrepreneurs in Thailand, the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Pattaya Municipality, and APCICT, in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, the Redemptorist Foundation for People with Disabilities, the Research Center of Communication, and the Development Knowledge Management are co-organizing the Launch and Training on Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) on 1-2 December 2022 in Pattaya Municipality Office. 

The Seventeenth Session of the APCICT Governing Council will be held on 9 November 2022 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. 

It will bring together the eight Council members elected by the Commission during its 78th Session for a three-year term (2022-2025) - Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Thailand - in addition to the Republic of Korea, host country. The Council will review the administration, financial status and progress of implementation of the Centre’s programmes.  

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT/ESCAP), in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology (MECCT) and the National Center for Information Technology of the Maldives, is organizing a Training on Information Security and Privacy on 24-25 October 2022 in Male, Maldives.  

In an effort to strengthen the national capacities of Mongolia, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), ESCAP Subregional Office for East and North-East Asia, and the Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development will organize the National Training on ICT for Disaster Risk Management on 13-14 October 2022.

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT/ESCAP), in collaboration with the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), will organize the Capacity Building Webinar on Cross-Sectoral Infrastructure Sharing for Broadband Connectivity from 29 to 30 September 2022. The webinar is being held in conjunction with the Third Ministerial Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific (RECI) on 28-30 September 2022 in Bangkok.  

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT/ESCAP), in partnership with the E-Government Projects Management Center under the Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan, will be conducting a National Webinar on Digital Government and Transformation on 26-28 September 2022.